Research Catalog

Title

The Palgrave handbook of Britain and the Holocaust / Tom Lawson and Andy Pearce, editors.

Publication

Cham, Switzerland ; Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, [2020]

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Details

Description

xix, 510 pages : illustrations (black and white), map; 25 cm

Summary

This handbook is the most comprehensive and up-to-date single volume on the history and memory of the Holocaust in Britain. It traces the complex relationship between Britain and the destruction of Europe?s Jews, from societal and political responses to persecution in the 1930s, through formal reactions to war and genocide, to works of representation and remembrance in post-war Britain. Through this process the handbook not only updates existing historiography of Britain and the Holocaust; it also adds new dimensions to our understanding by exploring the constant interface and interplay of history and memory. The chapters bring together internationally renowned academics and talented younger scholars. Collectively, they examine a raft of themes and issues concerning the actions of contemporaries to the Holocaust, and the responses of those who came ?after?. At a time when the Holocaust-related activity in Britain proceeds apace, the contributors to this handbook highlight the importance of rooting what we know and understand about Britain and the Holocaust in historical actuality. This, the volume suggests, is the only way to respond meaningfully to the challenges posed by the Holocaust and ensure that the memory of it has purpose.

Alternative Title

• Handbook of Britain and the Holocaust
• Britain and the Holocaust

Subject

• 1939-1945
• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Foreign public opinion, British
• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Public opinion
• Public opinion
• Public opinion, British

Genre/Form

Informational works.

Note

• 'Palgrave handbooks".

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Machine generated contents note: 1. Britain and the Holocaust: An Introduction / Andy Pearce -- pt. I Political Contexts -- 2. British Interwar Fascism and Anti-fascism / Daniel Tilles -- 3. The Agenda of British Refugee Policy, 1933 -- 18 / Louise London -- pt. II Refugees in Britain: 1933 -- 39 -- 4. The Immigration and Reception of Jewish Refugees from the Third Reich / Anthony Grenville -- 5. T Remember Their Labels Round Their Necks' Britain and the Kinder transport / Andrea Hammel -- pt. III War and Holocaust -- 6. Knowledge in Britain of the Holocaust During the Second World War / Michael Fleming -- 7. The Unlikely Tale of a Hero Named Coward: Uncomfortable Truths and the Necessary War / Russell Wallis -- 8. Belsen and the British / Dan Stone -- pt. IV Punishment and Memory -- 9. Ẁhere, Exactly, Is Auschwitz?' British Confrontation with the Holocaust Through the Medium of the 1945 B̀elsen' Trial / Caroline Sharpies -- 10. Campaigning for Justice: Anti-Fascist Campaigners, Nazi-Era Collaborator War Criminals and Britain's Failure to Prosecute, 1945 -- 1999 / Paul Jackson -- 11. Selective Histories: Britain, the Empire and the Holocaust / Michelle Gordon -- pt. V Cultural Representations -- 12. Beyond the Cesspit Beneath: The BBC and the Holocaust / James Jordan -- 13. British Cinema and the Holocaust / Barry Langford -- 14. British Holocaust Literature / Sue Vice -- pt. VI The Holocaust in British Society -- 15. A Defining Decade? Swastikas, Eichmann and Arson in 1960s Britain / Nigel Copsey -- 16. The Legacy of the Holocaust, Jewish History and British Antisemitism: The J̀ew Murderer' and the Murder of the Jews / Tony Kushner -- 17. T Belong Here. I Know I Ought Never to Have Come Back, Because It Has Proved I've Never Been Away': Kitty Hart-Moxon's Documentaries of Return / Isabel Wollaston -- pt. VII Public Pedagogy -- 18. Holocaust Education in England: Concerns, Controversies and Challenges / Stuart Foster -- 19. Holocaust Representation in the Imperial War Museum, 2000 -- 2020 / Hannah Holtschneider -- 20. Negotiating Memory and Agency: David Cesarani and the Imperial War Museum's Holocaust Exhibition (2000) / Chad Mcdonald -- pt. VIII Institutional Memory -- 21. From Celebrating Diversity to British Values: The Changing Face of Holocaust Memorial Day in Britain / Kara Critchell -- 22. Visions of Permanence, Realities of Instability: The Prime Minister's Holocaust Commission and the United Kingdom Holocaust Memorial Foundation / David Tollerton -- pt. IX Postscript -- 23. Britishness, Brexit, and the Holocaust / Andy Pearce.

Call Number

JFE 21-4434

ISBN

• 3030559319
• 9783030559311

OCLC

1164500768

Title

The Palgrave handbook of Britain and the Holocaust / Tom Lawson and Andy Pearce, editors.

Publisher

Cham, Switzerland ; Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, [2020]

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

1939-1945

Research Call Number

JFE 21-4434